In Spring One Plants Alone

The true, moving story of how an 84-year-old Maori woman struggles to care for her handicapped 40-year-old son.

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An aged woman lives with her fully grown and wholly dependant son.

This Vincent Ward film is a rare view of an enclosed world where an 82-year-old woman, alone, is 'The Burdened One'. Filmed over a period of one and a half years, this emerges as a haunting and powerful portrayal of their life together, a life of ritual and of their survival.